Our Campaign Comforts Fund.
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Fortnightly Despatches Increased are Now Being Made for by Over 50 per cent. Requests Suitable Woollen Comforts.
Patroness: H.R.H. Princess Arthur of Connaught.
Ladies Committee: Mrs. S. S. Long (wife of the D. S. and T., War Office?, Mrs. Shrapnell-Smith (wife of The Editor), Mrs R. K. Bagnall-Wild Iwife of a former Sec. M.T.C., War Office), Mrs. H. K. Blain (wile of the. Operating Manager, L.G.O.C.. etc.), Mrs. W. E. Donohue (wife oi the C.I.M.T., War Office), Mrs. H. N. foster (wile of the D.A.D.T., War Officer. Hon. Sec. and rreas.: The tditor. Purchase and Distribution: The Asst.-Editor. Scottish Receiving Depot: care of D. McNeil Sharp, 26, Victoria Drive, Scotstoun, Glasgow.
We are gradually getting into the swing of the new winter organization. The greatly increased numbers of active service columns are all being carefully recorded on oar special register, and correspondence has been opened with the 0.C.s of a large ntmber of Engineer and other columns which have attached to them small A.S.C., MT., units. We have week by week to report an automatic increase of the Fund's operations in all its many branches. Not only are our monetary requirements greater but purchases arc on a much more elaborate scale, and this, of course, entails corresponding extensions of our Purchase and Distributing organization.
A Remarkable Letter of Appreciation.
The following letter has been sent to in by a correspondent who, thinking it would he interesting to us, has forwarded it with a suggestion that we might care to publish it. We reproduce it in eaten-so and it speaks for itself.
8th September, 1915.
At the Front. Dear Mr. ---, I have for a. long time been meaning to drop you a line hut it has so far proved difficult to do so. Perhaps you heard that I came out here last September with the MN. Since then we have travelled about a great deal and for a long time have been close to the Front. You will know all the news with regard to the war so it is not necessary to mention that now.
My real reason for writing is to congratulate the workers of THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR Campaign Comforts Fund, who I believe are friends of yours, on the splendid and generous way in which they look after the personnel of the M.T.
Last November, December and January. I was assisting at the A.M.F.O. at a railhead in France, and was than struck with the enormous quantity of things that THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR Fund is seeding out to the Front. Moreover this remarkable generosity has been maintained and has not fizzled out as have certain others.
The M.T. companies out here have received regugularly and constantly a very welcome stream of gifts, all of them being judiciously selected and useful.
I need hardly say that the many thousands of drivers out here look forward with keen anticipation to the arrival of another COMMERCIAL IVIOTCIR Comforts box. They invariably receive a warm welcome
as we cannot buy much pe.rminally, everything locally being, of course, in a disorganized state.
So much is all this good work appreciated that I feel that the formal letters of acknowledgment which are sent, 1 suppose, by most of the 0.0.s, are entirely insufficient and, as I am in a. position to si}eak for largo numbers of officers and men, I feel that I should like to take this opportunity of acknowledging to you, and perhaps you will oats it along, that it is not only a pleasure but my duty to let you know that these gifts are indeed a bright spot in the lives of the A.S.C., M.T., men and show that we are not for
gotten.—Yours very truly, A. J. M. K.